TEDxUOIT summary

UOIT's first TEDx event featured informative and thought-provoking presentations from guest speakers and UOIT professors. Topics included solar-powered cars and future energy trends. If you missed the event you can now watch the videos online.
Thanks go to Aries Yous for these.

Watch TEDxUOIT online

IT-Security Reading Group

The IT Security Reading Group (IT-SRG) is a group of UOIT students (graduate and senior undergraduate) and faculty interested in computer security and privacy. IT-SRG meets to critically review and discuss current security research papers. This term IT-SRG will review selected 2010 papers from USENIX Security, ACM CCS, and IEEE Oakland. All interested faculty and students are invited to join by contacting Julie Thorpe (Julie.Thorpe@uoit.ca).

The first discussion is on the paper "Testing Metrics for Password Creation Policies by Attacking Large Sets of Revealed Passwords". Attendees should read it beforehand.
Monday January 24^th
from 5pm to 6pm
in the Hacker Research Lab

More info at IT-SRG's website

cybersecurity expert talk

Guest speaker Michael Assante, a leading cybersecurity expert, is coming to UOIT to offer his thoughts on the latest challenges, trends and opportunities. Topics include a history of cybersecurity, the life-cycle of advanced malware and the political impact of cybersecurity.

Thursday January 20^th, from 5pm to 7pm, in UA1140

Speaker Background:

Assante has held key posts in industrial control system security research at the Idaho National Laboratory and then as chief security officer of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, which is charged with power grid reliability. He was one of the experts that addressed U.S. senators last year about the dangers of a Windows-specific computer worm known as Stuxnet. Assante is also the president of the U.S. National Board of Information Security Examiners (NBISE).